General Supplements & Programs Rate Table
Effective: March 1, 2023
The asterisk indicates the most recent rate table changes
Supplement |
Item |
Maximum Amount |
Bus pass fees |
Annual fee for:
- persons who are receiving federal Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS)
- persons aged 65 and older who meet all of the eligibility requirements for the GIS except the 10-year residency requirement
- persons aged 60 and over who are receiving the federal Spouse’s Allowance to OAS
- persons aged 60 or older who are receiving income assistance
- persons aged 60 or older who live on a First Nations reserve and receive income assistance from the band office
- a spouse of a person who has a PWD designation :
- is aged 60 and over who are receiving disability assistance.
- Receives federal Spouse’s Allowance to OAS or GIS
- Is 65 years of age or older who meets all the eligibility requirements for GIS except the 10 year residency requirement
Note: No Annual fee for applicants and recipients with the PWD Designation.
Note: For recipients with the PWD designation who are receiving disability assistance that turn 65 years of age, their eligibility for the bus pass is transitioned to a bus pass under the Senior’s Bus Pass Program. In the year they transition there is no fee.
|
$45 |
Replacement fee for:
All client categories
|
- First lost pass:$10
- Second lost pass:$20
- Third lost pass: $50
|
Christmas supplement |
Single person with no dependent children |
$35 per calendar year |
Childless couple |
$70 per calendar year |
Either single- or two-parent family with dependent children |
$70 per calendar year
plus $10 for each dependent child |
Community volunteer supplement
(applications closed) |
Per eligible recipient |
Up to $100 per calendar month |
Co-op share purchase supplement |
Lump sum |
Limited to the smaller of following:
- $850
- 50% of cost of membership shares
|
Crisis supplement |
Food |
Up to $40 per person per month |
Clothing |
Up to:
- $100 per person per year
- $400 per family of four or more per year
|
Shelter |
Restricted to the actual cost up to the maximum combined shelter and support rates, as shown in Rate Table: Income Assistance, Disability Assistance or Hardship Assistance, plus the following actual amounts that the family unit is eligible to receive:
- Shared Parenting Assistance
- Pre-Natal Shelter Supplement
- Housing Stability Supplement
|
Child benefits top-up supplement1 |
First Child |
- *$213.25 per calendar month
|
Second Child |
- *$188.67 per calendar month
|
Third and each additional child |
- *$179.42 per calendar month
|
Funeral costs |
Funeral provider's basic service fee |
|
Other items or services fee |
|
Transportation fee |
- Kilometres 0 to 32: Included in funeral provider's basic service fee
- Kilometres 33 to 82: $1.00 per km
- Kilometres 83 to 182: $0.90 per km
- Kilometres above 182: $0.60 per km
|
Cost of urn |
|
Guide animal supplement |
Per eligible recipient or dependant |
$95 per calendar month |
Housing Stability Supplement |
Actual shelter costs when a member of the family unit is temporarily absent from the usual place of residence or passes away |
Up to combined support and shelter allowance that would have been provided prior to the temporary absence of a family member from the usual place of residence or death, subject to actual shelter costs |
School start-up supplement |
Child aged 5 to 11 |
$100 per calendar year |
Child aged 12 and over |
$175 per calendar year |
Transportation Supplement |
Per eligible adult recipient |
$52 per calendar month |
Transportation to Residential Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facility Supplement |
Travel allowance related to vehicle transportation |
$0.20 per kilometre |
Allowance for exceptional cases where circumstances warrant a meal |
$4 per meal |
Travel supplement |
Per eligible adult recipient |
Up to $46 per calendar month |
Transitional Transportation Support |
Per eligible adult recipient
[See Transportation Supplement – Policy]
|
$52 per calendar month |
1 The child benefits top-up supplement rates are based on the BC Child Adjustment Amount in the Employment and Assistance Regulation and Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Regulation.
This webpage was last updated: August 1, 2022